Your Fave deck?

[slave]

Hi all,

I'm pretty new to Legacy (but not to Magic), and so far I've tried to soak in as many different playing styles as I can, to really find what deck suits how I want to play.
And I've found one or two decks that just scream to me - Fun!
Quite a lot are fairly thought intense, some demand you juggle math on the play, others look very linear & consistent and almost pilot themselves.
And there are those that look fun for 15 minutes and repetitive/boring thereafter.

So I'm curious what decks you fella's & babe's think is your "Fave/ Most Fun!" deck in Legacy, & what you think is "the biggest waste of card board ever...."deck.
And why?

Cheers.

[MirrorMask]

My Favorites:
1) Reanimator (Was my childhood's dream. The T1 version and had no money for it back then-1998 or1999 if i am not mistaken. Now of course I own a legacy reanimator and i am very proud of it. It was my first legacy deck.)
2) RUG-tempo
3) RUG delver
4) EVA Green, The gate
5) Team America

Kind of like them:
6) Merfolks
7) Burn (Its very linear and straightforward and becomes a bit boring after a while- very decent budget deck by the way)
8) BUG Infect (when Mental misstep was legal it was actually a nice deck- the face of your opponent when he lost was priceless!!!!)
9) Dredge (Not a bad deck and if you like reanimator style decks you may like this one too as it utilizes the graveyard and is very explosive- also a very very good budget option. Maybe the best.)
10) Zombies (YEAH!! BRAIIINS- but NOT competitive and I like tournaments)

Indifferent towards :9) Elves, goblins

Haven't tried: Show and tell. sneak and show, storm, high tide, belcher, affinity so I won't say anything about them

Hatred (not the card) towards :
1) Zoo [i fucking HATE the color combination plus play style(dump beating with mobs)]
2) Maveric (I think i hate it as it contains white- I hate white)
3 to infinite) any stone forge mystic deck- there is a lot of white in it

Waste of cardboard : I don't think that there is such a bad or not fun deck.

[Chikenbok]

Best:
1. Doomsday
2. BUG control
Worst:
1. Everything else

[death]

Fave:
check out my primers

Hate:
Punishing Fire, Undying zombies (annoying)

[Sloshthedark]

Survival-based
Lands
Bx Storm (+Solidarity)
--------------------
Stoneforge-based
Merfolk, Affinity
Hightide
Burn

[Humphrey]

Since years
1. Goblins
2. Canadian

[SaberTooth]

Love:

Storm decks (ant, tes, DD)
Goblins

Hate:

Maverick
Belcher
Countertop
Show and tell decks

[tsabo_tavoc]

Like:
Ancient Tomb-based decks.

Dislike:
Wasteland-based decks.

Reason:
I love playing big-mana bombs.

Edit:
Hate: Spiral Tide. The combo takes too long.

[Viridia]

Like (love :D):
Landstill - BUG in particular
Any other Pernicious Deed deck

Hate
Stoneforge decks :mad:

[Jenni]

Favourites are Prison decks, The Armageddon stax deck I run is a prison version (as opposed to the more aggro stax lists), The Enchantress deck locks down with solitary and wins off of angel tokens or a GSZ for progenitus.
I also have a non-competative Stasis deck that can have a hard-lock on the game by turn 4 or 5.
I would like to get a lands deck, I've proxied it to test it and it's really fun to play, but I'm not sure I want to drop the money on it right now.

I also like heavy control decks like counter-top, MUC, Miracles and the like.

For decks I dislike, Any combo deck except Reanimator I find obnoxious to play with or against (So, ANT, TES, High Tide, Show and Tell). Reanimator I don't find as annoying to play with/against.

Waste of cardboard... I would say the only deck I've played that was a waste of my time and money was Belcher. It was fun the first few times I played it, but once it lost the novelty value it's just a miserable deck to play and it's lack of consistency makes it very luck-intensive.

Edit: I actually forgot one of my favourite decks! UWx Landstill is a deck I always take apart and end up going back to eventually. I play a heavy control version with man-lands as basically the only win con.

[Tormod]

Decks I love:
I absolutely love Stoneblade, been playing it for 2 years. It was my first Legacy deck, after I got back into Magic during Zendikar/Scars. I hated the complaining about how expensive caw-blade was in standard and how unfair it was, so I decided to port it to Legacy. Fortunately I had kept my antiquities mishra factories, wastelands and force of wills from when I was a younger. Candelabra exploded in price and I was able to trade it for Tundras. I traded the majority of standard to finish off building the deck. Getting married meant no more standard for me. Stoneblade represent getting into Legacy for me and abandoning standard.

I'm loving "Oscar the grouch" the working name I have for a GB aggro midrange deck.

Decks I hate:
High Tide. I respect it, but I hate how the deck plays, I hate how the games play out.

[zendo]

Adore:

1) Any Bug
2) Any Stoneforge and Blades - currently Esper is preferred

Conflicted:

1) Entreat for the win !


Dispise:

1) High Tide types

[SpikeyMikey]

Love:
Zoo
BUGStill

Hate:
Show and Tell decks
Natural Order decks

I really hate Timmy fatties. I'm relatively ok with Reanimator. Reanimator can be hated on by any color with gy hate. Show and Tell decks require you to run discard or counters.

[kiblast]

1) BUG Aluren
2) BUG Control
3) BUG tempo.

[Einherjer]

Decks I really enjoy playing are:
BUG Control
UWB Esperblade

Decks I hate:
Affinity
Belcher
Burn


Greetings

[raudo]

I kinda love tribal decks

I like all creature based decks

I hate all turn one combo decks like Belcher, ANT, Reanimator etc. There is no idea to play against decks you dont even get a turn.

[tonedown]

Fish - My first Legacy deck and still my favourite one.

[Kap'n Cook]

It's interesting that no one has mentioned Dredge as a deck they hate.

[Pin_Vlc]

1 False cure
2 Welder Survival
3 Merfolks Mono U

[John Cox]

I can't believe the hate belcher is getting, -it's one of my all time favourites. I also have no idea why people are saying it's inconsistent, I always found it to be more reliable than just about anything.

[Jenni]

I can't believe the hate belcher is getting, -it's one of my all time favourites. I also have no idea why people are saying it's inconsistent, I always found it to be more reliable than just about anything.

It always felt like a coin-flip deck for me. Either it worked perfectly, and I just win in the first couple turns, or more often, it didn't work, and I either empty the warrens and hoped to get a win off goblin tokens, or just end up mulling to 4-5 and couldn't quite get enough mana or storm on time to take the game.

Edit: Not to say it's necessarily a bad deck, I admit I am not the best pilot for the deck, and it really doesn't suit my playstyle.

[Kagehisa]

My favorite deck is Mono Blue Stasis with (the banned Gush that I replaced by) Ancestral Vision and Frozen Aether. The reason I like this deck is that I'm happy with every Island I draw and I'm happy with playing Jace, the Mind Sculptor in a mono blue deck.

Really prison decks are cool !

And yes, my bad english makes me sound like a 6-year-old little kid.

Then comes MUC, Kadaj's list in the opening. I think that MUC is a deck that pretends to die/lose the first turns and then lock and win. Pretending to die and then winning is fun lol and your opponents often say :" I almost killed you." It is fun to hear that so many times :laugh:

[UnsungHero]

1.Lands
2.BUG Control Style Decks
3.Decks with Thopter/Sword Combo
4.Canadian Thresh/Tempo Thresh
5.Aluren

Only deck I really don't care for is Sneak/Omnishow.

[John Cox]

It always felt like a coin-flip deck for me. Either it worked perfectly, and I just win in the first couple turns, or more often, it didn't work, and I either empty the warrens and hoped to get a win off goblin tokens, or just end up mulling to 4-5 and couldn't quite get enough mana or storm on time to take the game.

I've only played it once in a tournament, I had it flop out on me when I found out 10 goblins wasn't enough goblins to beat (surprise) goblins. The other two games I lost that tournament were mostly to unfamiliarity with the deck. It was really solid though from my experience and I felt like I could take the place down if I had more experience and more luck on the coin toss.

[Valtrix]

Control decks with intuition. There's so many build paths to meta game, and I always feel like I have so much power/options in every game. (Although I lose a lot to misplays...Oh well.)

[jamis]

I'm currently playing:

UB Reanimator
Mono-B Necrotic Ooze combo
MUD prison control
Team America
Anything else I can brew by combining cards from the above decks

They're all my children and I could never pick a favorite (it's MUD control).

[Wikipedia]

All forms of counterbalance and solidarity.

Hypergenesis and sneak and show, no thank you.

[ShiftyKapree]

My top 3:
UGW Counterbalance (with natural order)
RUG
New Horizons

Hate:
Merfolk (not skill intensive)
Mono-blue control
Show and Tell

[Lord Seth]

Favorite is High Tide. Least favorite is probably CounterTop variants followed by Show and Tell.

[Aggro_zombies]

My favorite decks:

Survival: This deck was just so fun to play. Survival probably would have had to go at some point anyway, given the power creep in creatures, but having to go because of Vengevine makes me sad. Having the V-Ball kill sucked the fun out of the deck.
Aggro Loam: I love me some long, grindy, attrition-based games, and Aggro Loam certainly provides. The fact that I never had the time to practice blue control enough to pilot it well but could intuitively pilot Aggro Loam helped a lot, too.
Astral Slide (old Extended): Not Legacy, I know, but still takes the top prize for my favorite deck of all time. It has recursion, it has grind, it has neat tricks it can do with utility creatures. If only this deck was competitive...

My least favorite decks:

RUG Tempo/Canadian: I can play this deck competently, but god do I hate playing it. I hate how at the mercy of your topdecks you are if the game starts to grind out, I hate how all-in some of its hands can be, I hate how often you're trying to get there with basically just one or two mid-sized guys. I know the deck is good and everything, I just don't like playing it.
Belcher: The coin-flippy nature of these games really irritates me. Losing to Belcher pretty much never feels good.
Mono-Black / Black/x Midrange Blobs: The bane of my existence. The kinds of decks I like to play always fall prey to these sorts of things and losing to a pile of random discard and bad creatures drives me up the wall.

[aahz]

I love UBr Control in Vintage, though I am also quite enamored with Bazaar Dredge. As for Legacy, my favorite decks are Enchantress, manaless Dredge, and High Tide.

I loathe Reanimator and Show&Tell decks. They are soooooo boring and one dimensional (sure, you can say that about some of the decks I like, but at least they don't just blow their load on the first few turns. I had Reanimator built for about a week, but then I decided it was too boring to actually play with, even though it won a lot of games, so I dismantled it). I am also not a fan of Canadian Thresh and CounterTop decks. Nor do I like the red zone very much (unless it's full of zombie tokens).

[Jenni]

It's interesting that no one has mentioned Dredge as a deck they hate.

Dredge is a bit annoying, I tend to group it in with reanimator for the most part. It's an odd combo-ey deck, it can cheat something nasty into play or swarm with zombie tokens, but it's really vulnerable to a lot of hate. I've actually had players just scoop up their cards because I opened with a leyline of the void in hand.

[Koby]

In no particular order:

Favorite decks:
1. Extended Gro-a-tog with Vampiric Tutor and Gush
2. EPIC Survival Elves
3. Bant VV Survival
4. Classic NecroSpike
5. circa 2000 Ponza

Hatred decks:
1. circa 2000 Accelerated Blue
2. Supreme Blue
3. Hive Mind
EDIT: 4. Pox decks that still run Sinkhole and the players who think its still good right now.

[Mr Miagi]

Faves:
1. Enchantress
2. Dredge
3. GB various rock builds

Hate to play against (but not necessarily with):
Belcher
Reanimator
Lands

[aahz]

Hatred decks:
EDIT: 4. Pox decks that still run Sinkhole and the players who think its still good right now.
How could I have forgotten Pox? I LOVE that deck, though I play an atypical Bw version with Enlightened Tutor and a variety of silver bullets (and no Sinkholes). It's not especially competitive, but it sure is fun to play.

[Kich867]

Jund things. Someone bumped the Jund thread on the new and developmental forum. I posted what I'd want to build there. That's my jam. In the world of Jundland, we go turn 1 discard > Bob/Goyf > kill your shit and beat face. Unfortunately, funds hold me back, here's to year-end bonuses baby yeah!

[kingsey]

I love Bant and most tempo decks ( Team America )

I hate Enchantress, Lands, basicly anything that drags the game out for 50mins. :mad:

[cartoonist]

My two favorite decks are black/white control and suicide black. I love controlling the pace of the game and building to a win. If I'm in the mood, I'll take the all-in aggro nature of a suicide black deck.

[edgarps22]

Loves
1) Hulk Smash and various Psychatog variants (Gro-A-Tog, Dredge-a-tog)
2) Goblins
3) Legacy MUD
4) Turboland

Hatreds
Nothing really, everything is fair game, okay okay maybe Flash Hulk

[boneclub24]

10-Land Stompy, obviously. Y U NO competitive?

[Bignasty197]

Favorites
1. Reanimator- first Legacy deck ever.
2. Merfolk- beating up on all those CB and Landstill decks back in the day was awesome.
3. Any Bant variant- Almost effortless to play now since it has been my deck of choice for the better part of 2 years

Hate
1. Delver decks of any kind. Seriously, a blue common that you can build a deck around? Go away.
2. Affinity- Fracturing Gust, suck it.
3. Enchantress- See Affinity^

[Mostly_Harmless]

I love me some Doomsday, TES, Armageddon Stax, Solidarity and It's The Fear. (It's possible that I'm that guy.)

I hate ANT. Why would you play it over another storm deck? Also Belcher. I'm pretty sure that anyone who thinks it's consistent hasn't played against blue.

[kwis]

I personally love the Manaless Ichorid deck because I think it's incredibly cool to be able to play a deck that relies that much on triggers and can still be incredibly explosive.

Other decks I enjoy are Storm Combo and some decks like Deadguy.


Overall I enjoy doing broken things and I appreciate the powerhouse cards of whatever format I'm playing in.

[obituary 95]

decks i love

counterbalence uw with enlightened tutor
dreadstill Paul cheon style
thopter balance

decks I despise
anything with show and tell or emrakul
uw miracles.it is so slow.

[Chimera87]

Like (love :D):
Landstill - BUG in particular
Any other Pernicious Deed deck

Hate
Stoneforge decks :mad:

Same, plus love most die-hard control decks.

[Pinoy Goblin]

1.GOBLINS
2.GOBLINS
3.GOBLINS

:tongue::tongue::tongue:

[god_campbell]

FAV:
BUG Landstill
Uw miaricles
Uwb stone blade

Hate:
goblins
Merfolk
Show and tell variants

[paeng4983]

10-Land Stompy, obviously. Y U NO competitive?

It is brother. Its just they're all drawing good cards whenever we're facing them. lols


1.GOBLINS
2.GOBLINS
3.GOBLINS

:tongue::tongue::tongue:

GOBLINS - standard headed by krenko
GOBLINS - modern headed by chieftain and king
GOBLINS - legacy headed by lacky and pile

:P

FAV:
berserk stumpy
dutch stax
burn
TES

DISLIKE:
counterTOP variants
enchantress
show and tell base decks

[tezzerator69]

Fav decks in no particular order:
UWr Miracle/Any countertop variant
Canthresh
New Horizon
UGr Faeries
NO RUG
Bant
Punishing Maverick
Goblins

Hate:
Any combo deck
Black-based decks

[wizard_of_gore]

The most favorite decks:

G/W/B Goodstuff based decks (Rock, maverick, deadguy ale)
UW control based decks (sometimes with red or black splash)


I hate:
Burn
any vial decks (except maybe goblins)
RUG delver / threshold

[joemauer]

My favorite decks are the ones that break the traditional rules of Magic: Stax, Dredge, TES, Lands.

My least favorite are Show and Tell decks & burn. Much too linear for me.

[chinitoz30]

Favorites:
1. MBC
2. U/R Delver
3. Merfolk
4. Rug Tempo
5. U/W Variants

Hates:
1. Enchantress
2. Dredge
3. Combo Decks - Ant, Tes and Belcher

[sco0ter]

Favorites:

Any Survival variants (Full English Breakfast, Welder Survival, Angry Tradewind Survival, RGb SA, ...)
They were clearly the most fun decks for me. Especially because you could already put so many thoughts and variants into the deckbuilding process.
Eternal Garden
Because I like the weirdness of playing so many lands AND having a land toolbox, which also makes the deckbuilding process more fun.
Goblin Welder decks
Fun to repeatitively reanimate robots.
Madness
Because of the synergies and challenge to balance discard outlets with madness cards. I guess Zombardment is similar.
UGW Blink (EDH)
Because of the synergies and card advantage it generates throught creatures entering the battlefield.


I generally think toolbox decks with a lot of options and lines of play and decks with lots of synergies offer the most long-term fun.
I guess Reanimator could be fun as well, because of its odd game plan and Death and Taxes too, because of it's tricks and weenie nature. But I've never played it.

Fails:

Dredge has synergies, but nonetheless really boring. Rightly called the "anti-magic" deck.
Belcher
Mulligan. Mulligan. FoW? no? Ok, I win. yes? Ok. next game.
Affinity
My build ended up winning with Cranial Plating most of the games, which became boring very fast.

[Richard Cheese]

I tend to like decks that have something to do every turn, interact with the opponent, and are consistent. Some of my favorites over the years have been Deadguy (especially vial lists), Aggro Loam, and Zoo. Maverick satisfies all the criteria, but I rarely play it because it's the Toyota Camry of decks.

I like playing combo sometimes because it's so powerful, but I can't seem to stick with it very long because I just lose to variance too often. There's nothing I hate worse than going through a half dozen draw spells looking for one of 6+ cards and coming up empty. That's probably just me being crappy though.

[slave]

Great replies here everyone.
I'm noticing a bit of a trend in a lot of the replies too.
A lot of you are naming your fave few decks, and the ones you don't like seem to be the ones your favourite decks don't do so well against.
The hated seem to be mostly the very linear "this deck has one trick to win" kinda decks, I feel pretty similarly here concerning decks like Reanimator, Show n Tell Variants & Hypergenesis, as they play out literally the same way game after game, and I don't find very fun to play with or against.

Decks that punish you for not playing blue, like Storm, can suck my balls, just not fun to play against.
Even if you are playing blue - you Force. Wow, that was showing my skills!!!:eyebrow:

I'm surprised some of you said you don't like POX?
I like playing against Pox, as it's always a challenge to see how your deck, and strategy, stands up against so much hate.
That said, I don't think I could play it, it's a very expensive deck for something so slow and punishing when you misplay.

Decks I like;
Manaless Dredge - my fave right now - been playing it quite a bit, and despite what some people may say, if your build is good, you'll have more answers than they have hate.
Goblins - building this deck for a friend, and it's gonna be hard to hand it over when I've got the numbers/slots finalised! Such a fun deck for multiplayer too!
Maverick - good ole Mav, easy to pilot and has maindeck answers for most matchups. It's a classic for a reason I guess!
Pact SI - very nerve wracking/skill intensive deck to play, not too hard to kill yourself too. I like playing it, but understand when opponents groan ".....not storm..."


I hate ...... basicly anything that drags the game out for 50mins. :mad:
LOL, yeah I'm pretty similar. Quick games' a good game.

To be honest, there only a couple decks I really despise playing against with a passion, and they're the ones that totally lock the game up for the next 30 minutes with NOTHING HAPPENING!!!!
I can't attack you, I can't deal damage to you, I can't play my combo pieces, I can't activate my artifacts etc etc.
I admire those decks - but I hate playing against them in every way!!! Especially when their only path to win is so slow to eventaute.

[woremak]

My favorite deck I ever played was the Burning Wish loam builds from a few years ago that cast Devastating Dreams. Casting that card and winning was always fun. Goblins is a fun deck, and I like playing dredge a lot too.
For non-legacy, I've always loved playing Teachings (when it was in standard and now that it's in modern).
The only decks I consistently dislike playing against are Sneak and Show and Belcher, although I really don't mind playing against anything once per tournament. Really, what I like least is playing the same deck round after round. The last big legacy tournament I played in I played 3 goblin mirrors, which really made me hate the little green men.

[Pinoy Goblin]

It is brother. Its just they're all drawing good cards whenever we're facing them. lols



GOBLINS - standard headed by krenko
GOBLINS - modern headed by chieftain and king
GOBLINS - legacy headed by lacky and pile

:P

FAV:
berserk stumpy
dutch stax
burn
TES

DISLIKE:
counterTOP variants
enchantress
show and tell base decks

PAENG = King of killer Rogue decks:smile::smile::smile:

[door]

My sweet decks are:
Cephalid Breakfast - it was my first legacy deck, which seemed to me godlike at that time.
Sea Stompy - because it is so oldschool and still able to punish those who rely on 1cc cards too much. Also I love to be challenged when it is about keeping or taking a mull. With Sea Stompy it's always challenging =)
U/R painted stone - this is a quintessence of synergy, though it went to oblivion after mental misstep was banned. I still love playing it in kitchen.
Also I love to play lands.dec, but I hate to play against it =) Because it's so powerfull and takes a lot of skill to play for and against, I admire those, who play it.

Interesting though, if you ask me, how often do I play those decks, I will answer rarely. They are too metagame dependent, so it is all about a special enlightenment or magnetic storm which make me pick them up. And in a usual day you would find me playing maverick, or reanimator, or some BUG control.

Those I always hate to play against:
Elves! - for a billion of years it was always around 1 thing: green manadorks + glimpse of nature. If I'm playing any creature deck, than I'm always fucked up, unless I'm prepared. But usually I am not, because it shows up once in 2 months. And their comboing-off is so boring to watch.
Enchantress and Belcher - these are better than Elves, but I also hate them. The decks that rely only on you being unprepared.
Sensei's Diving Top decks piloted by weak players. You know why.

[lavafrogg]

I love this thread!

Favorite decks:
1. Reset High Tide
2. Dredge-a-tog
3. Survival before vengevines when nobody played it

Decks I just don't get:
1. Burn
2. Midrange Board Control

Hated Decks
1. Goblins
2. Madness...fuck wild mongrel
3. Mono White Control

[Jenni]

3. Survival before vengevines when nobody played it


Wasn't the Tradewind Rider + Survival of the fittest deck one of the best decks in legacy well before vengevines were a thing? I wouldn't say nobody played it...

[Koby]

Wasn't the Tradewind Rider + Survival of the fittest deck one of the best decks in legacy well before vengevines were a thing? I wouldn't say nobody played it...

EPIC Survival Elves was on the verge of breaking to Tier 1 in the era before VV, but then everyone got caught up with Veggies.
The very real possibility of Turn 2 Hasty Emrakul is not to be dismissed.

[Jenni]

EPIC Survival Elves was on the verge of breaking to Tier 1 in the era before VV, but then everyone got caught up with Veggies.
The very real possibility of Turn 2 Hasty Emrakul is not to be dismissed.

I remember seeing that deck in action, it was pretty interesting to say the least. I miss Survival tbh, not that I would necessarily want it back now, but some of the decks it allowed were pretty interesting.

[ilazul]

favorites:
1. Esper Blade - as someone who loved fairy's during lorwyn, this is essentially the same deck. It's always active, and has something do do every turn again and again (love it with factorys!)
2. Aggro Loam - the most fun (competitive) deck I've ever played, back when 2 devastating dreams and 4 burning wish worked wonders. The whole deck is this massive engine of speed and efficiency. (now i love BUG with loam)
3. BUG (tempo or loam control) - the natural progression of aggro loam, can now be more control based or even some of the delver style decks popping up. BUG has everything, and its fun.
4. RUG Delver - Until I started trying BUG delver, this is what i considered the deck full of everything efficient.
5. MUD - I think this is the most fun deck ever made. nothing beats metalworker into dump hand. nothing beats turn 2 lightning greaves equipped blightsteel colossus. It's a shame it's not really competitive anymore.

Hate:
1. Show and Tell / hypergenesis / omnitell - I mostly play blue so its not like I can't beat it, it's just annoying a the pilot doesn't even really need to be there. Too samey and autopilot-y for my taste. I feel bad for people who don't play blue.
2. Aether vial based decks (Except Dn'T) - merfolk and goblins aren't the hardest if you're packing explosives and some sweepers (thanks supreme verdict!). but they're not very interesting and also suffer the same autopilot-y feeling to me.
3. Belcher - If I wanted to flip a coin to win I'd play yugioh
4. RUG Delver- yep it's one of my favorites, but it's one of my least favorites to play against. And sometimes play, being a slave to top decking (i think someone said this earlier) is why i moved to the BUG version.
5. Anything that does nothing - I understand your combo might take 50 turns or you're playing miracles, but seriously I don't want to spend the entire match on a draw because you durdle and take 3 minutes spinning top every 5 seconds. You are the living representation of Norin the Wary.

[Piceli89]

Love:
- Meta-definition: decks built with an elegant balance between card advantage, parallel engines, answers/threats ratio and flexible cards, assuring you a wide array of choices and being able to outplay the opponent (read: operating fully or partially at instant speed). They all happen to be blue, in my eyes. CAW Cartel and Robin (RUG advantage) are the perfect example.
- Anything that runs a combination of Vendilion Clique, Jace, Snapcaster Mage, Force of Will, with Brainstorm being a mandatory 4x in every deck I' d ever conceive to play in a tournament.
- Anything falling in the first category that also packs a whooping Crucible of Worlds. That card is unrightly forgotten by most, so sick with fetchlands, Wasteland and Brainstorm.
- Ad Nauseam Tendrils. Old love never dies. Still the deck with the highest potential in Legacy, despites direct/indirect hate growing at every expansion.
- Sulfur Elemental. So busted, even maindeck, so undervalued.
- Thopter foundry decks. I wish they were still good.


Hate:

- Midrange sorcery-speed decks, especially if packing green. Life from the Loaming 3000 times and Maverick I can't really dig, really.
- Canadian Threshold, as it's just a pale shadow of the true skill-requiring masterpiece it used to be. Now it's just a burn deck covered by an amount of permission that pushes its success exploiting the ol' good maybe i've got this, maybe i've got that in hand to the maximum in order to win. Talking about global results, I think it's rewarding way more mediocre players that it should be.
- Your typical kinky deck played by the typically kinky player that joins you on Cockatrice when you write "Experts Only" and argues that he's playing a serious contender of the format.
- MUD: Explode or implode.
Also, Dragon Stompy gets all the pussy.
- I could write the usual suspects (Dredge, Burn, Show and Tell), but I'll be tolerant today.

[Megadeus]

Ive only played a couple of decks, but both are somewhat similar.

Love Grindy Control decks. UB Tezz/Nic Fit (the rock!)
I just love hard fought battles of attrition and lots of thinking. Winning with these decks makes me feel like I played a good game and always brings me joy.

Hate: Snt based decks. Brainstorm brainstorm play Snt GG? Lame.

[.dk]

Hmm.... favorite decks....
Anything running Doomsday (currently running a Menendian-ish list)
Zero
TES
Tin Fins (mostly cause I D2'd Atlanta with it)

Least Favorite...
Honestly, not that much. I like playing magic. :) If I was forced to pick something, I suppose I'd pick Zoo as I usually find it a bit boring, but even then, it's pretty alright.


Yep, I like weird combo decks (although TES isn't "weird" like the others are)

[Megadeus]

Is there anyone in here that ENJOYS SnT based combo?

[.dk]

Is there anyone in here that ENJOYS SnT based combo?

I enjoy it as a backup G2/3 in Tin Fins after grave hate comes in. :)

[Jenni]

Is there anyone in here that ENJOYS SnT based combo?

I don't. Kind of annoying to play against, and pretty dull to play imo. It's not even that hard to beat with most of the deck I play, since it gets hated by stuff my lsits had anyway, so it's just very dull.

[Einherjer]

Is there anyone in here that ENJOYS SnT based combo?

Well I did. The first 100 hours were fun. To see the panic and frustration on the opponents faces... but well, now I hate them too :P

Greetings

[Julian23]

Omniscience gets boring pretty fast, so I try to avoid playing it. My friends still keep placing it in my hands - you can't argue with stats, 13-2-1 over the last 3 tournaments with it. Still, I'm moving on.

Regarding favorite decks to play:

Bant Survival in late 2009, early 2010. Way before Vengevine was printed. I still miss it and feel so bad about not playing it in enough tournaments back then. If only I had known...:cry:
I also enjoyed playing Enchantress for its uniqueness, Lands for its demanding puzzle-like nature and Maverick at GP Amsterdam - it just felt right.


When I started playing Legacy, I hated Canadian Threshold and Landstill. How could one ever beat those decks, like ever?! The thought of people playing Daze or Counterspell really scared me.
Nowadays, the only deck I really dislike is anything with Thopter Foundry.

[jamis]

Is there anyone in here that ENJOYS SnT based combo?
My favorite deck ever was Rev614, which used SnT as one of its win conditions. Of course, you also had the options of Doomsday into tendrils, Doomsday into Shelldock Isle into Emrakul, and natural Tendrils, so it never got dull. Could never get that deck to feel right without Mystical Tutor, though.

[Megadeus]

Lands look sooooo fun to play. That deck is awesome. Basically anything that gives me the option to play creeping tar pit makes me very happy

[menace13]

Love: Anything with monsters 7cc and above.

Hate: Anything with creatures NOT above 7cc. Oh, and everything NOT blue.

[Philipp2293]

Favourite: FEB

Current favourites should be Lands and 12 Post.

Dislike:

Geddon Stax, especially if I autoloose to a non-shitty draw and then watch the player the next 2 rounds as his deck craps on him. Also, I think Miracles and Show and Tell Decks are pretty boring.

[Leftconsin]

EPIC Survival Elves was on the verge of breaking to Tier 1 in the era before VV, but then everyone got caught up with Veggies.
The very real possibility of Turn 2 Hasty Emrakul is not to be dismissed.

I have that deck built and on standby just in case Survival gets unbanned. That is how much I love that deck.

[Fossil4182]

Favorite Decks:

GBW Survival (favorite deck all time)

Doomsday Device (favorite legal deck)

RUG Delver

Mono Blue (with main deck Back to Basics)


Cool Decks:

Meandeck MUD

Lands



Decks I Enjoy Playing Against the Least

Time Spiral Combo

Standard decks at Legacy events

[Koby]

I have that deck built and on standby just in case Survival gets unbanned. That is how much I love that deck.

Also the reason why I never sold 3 Survivals when it was imminent they would be banned :laugh:

[ReinVos]

I really like Canadian Threshold. I like having game against most decks. I also love Brainstorm and this deck has really powerful Brainstorms. I also like ANT for it's punishing nature. Some match-ups are free wins and because it's often times better to present the problem than being put into a position where you answer or die.

That said, Lands is a very powerful prophylactic deck. This deck allows you to really strategize your way to victory, or rather, to NOT lose games and forcing the opponent to concede or die a horrible and slow death.

There's no deck I really dislike. I dislike piloting dredge, but playing against it is pretty exciting.

[TheArchitect]

Fav:
- Anything that plays lots of 1-of's and ways to find them (Top, brainstorm, GSZ, Survival, wishes even). I like to have an answer to everything.
- Decks that use the graveyard as a resource.
- So right now, Nic Fit is my go to deck. But I have a soft spot for dredge, reanimator, TES, survival and anything that can play transmute artifact.

Hate:
- Generic piles of 4-ofs that are the best cards of their colors (Zoo, Burn, RUG, bant, etc)
- Anything with Emrakuls

[Zombie]

Fav:
- Anything that plays lots of 1-of's and ways to find them (Top, brainstorm, GSZ, Survival, wishes even). I like have an answer to everything.
- Decks that use the graveyard as a recourse.
- So right now, Nic Fit is go to deck. But I have a soft spot for dredge, reanimator, TES, survival and anything that can play transmute artifact.

Hate:
- Generic piles of 4-ofs that are the best cards their colors (Zoo, Burn, RUG, bant, etc)
- Anything with Emrakuls

Are you a clone of me or the reverse, perhaps?

[JamieW89]

Anything with 4 Brainstorms and 1 Tendrils of Agony in the 75 will do.

[LowBeyonder]

Favorites:
-- Excruciatingly slow, grindy control decks - Lands, Deedstill, and Caw Cartel.
-- Mathy complicated combo decks - DDFT, Spanish Inquisition, Solidarity.

Hate:
-- Green creature decks.
-- Creature decks.
-- Show and Tell.

[godofallu]

Love: Midranged* aggro decks with an answer to anything.
Bant
RUG
Junk

Hate: Cheap combo decks which use gimmicks to win, occasionally before you have a chance to do anything. Solitaire decks that don't interact at all.
High Tide
TES
Belcher

[monovfox]

favorites in no particular order:
Death and Taxes
Miracles (less so nowadays, but I still have a soft spot for it)
Tokens
MUD (I don't play it, but I LOVE when if goes off. It is absolutely beautiful (and annoying))

Least favorite:
SHOW AND TELL
ANT
SHOW AND TELL
ANT
SHOW AND TELL (show and tell is so autopilot, especially with omniscience now. It's absolutely disgusting)

[litenkatt]

Like

Pox, nic fit

Dislike

Any deck that has emrakul in its 75

[Beatusnox]

*looks at signature*
*backs away slowly*

[_Fortune_]

Favorites:
BW Deadguy (tokens build)
Death & Taxes
Eva Green
-Waiting for a good build of BUG control to come along....


Least Favorites:
RUG
Show & Tell
High Tide

[Fry]

I absolutely love decks with tricks, I also love decks with weird answers in the 75... Without further ado here's what I love to play:

Death and Taxes is by and far my most favorite deck... I love the crazy interactions it can create when you're a competent player. My list is a quite unusual though in that it doesn't play the tutor package or serra avengers, but it does play mirran crusader and leonin arbiter(I LOVE this card in legacy... It hurts just about tier deck that you can think of except for dredge... ever think how many fetches decks play? I love having vial on 2 and in response to a fetch, in come the ARBITER! Yep, that's right, let your opponent pay the life and sac the land, just to keep them from getting that land they wanted...)

Forgemaster MUD, I also greatly enjoy playing... It's not as auto-pilot as you probably think it is, you have to know when to forgemaster into card X, the cards A, B, and C to sacrifice, it's a deck that can punish you if you don't know what you're doing.

Nic Fit is a great deck also, I love how it has so many options and tricks it can perform (Kokusho anyone?)

Enchantress, I like a main board Ward of Bones, most people don't know what it is, but it definately punishes a lot of decks that don't cheat things into to play. It also has a lot of 1-ofs that at worst don't do anything on their own (but are spectacular against several decks), but still read as, draw at least one card.

I also have all the cards to build Maverick, but don't since I like to play decks that aren't crazy popular and you see in tourments every single time you go.

I have The Gate that I'll play every once in a great while when people in my area "forget" about it and aren't prepared anymore since it's been a couple months.

I really rather hate playing with or against Belcher, too much of a one-trick (okay, maybe two with empty) pony that's rather luck based, even when you do have a "consistent" build as much as that deck really can.

Dislike pretty much anything that gets to be crazy boring for me (Enchantress can kind of fall into this category unless I'm the one playing it) such as High Tide (beat it with MUD out at SCG's COlumbus with 23 minutes left in the round after scooping game one since they started to masturbate with a decent amount of mana with spiral played.), other Storm variants (T.E.S., ANT, SI, etc.)

I don't mind playing against Reanimator (D&T's is fun against this, so many tricks that just screw them) or Dredge (can you say sac a creature with forgemaster, get card X (most of the time Platinum Emperion, sometimes Steel Hellkite). Affinity can be an interesting match-up, just not fun.

Goblins and Fish, not bad, jsut kind of the same thing except one has an additional creature cheat in Lacky, the other has counterspells, they can get boring even if the games are interactive.

I do like playing against rogue decks though (part of why I love Legacy is that there are a metric crap-ton of different decks out there that aren't pieces of crap.)

Over all I love playing Magic so much that unless I'm playing against Hypergenesis, Omnishow, Storm, amongst other non interactive decks at least a third of the day that normally say I lose since I don't play counters, I'm pretty alright with it. (Though I have won one game against High Tide with D&T's once though... Can you say FOUR hate dudes in play by turn three equals they cry... especially when they're Leonin Arbiter, Ethersworn Canonist, Thalia, and Phyrexian Revoker (on Candelabra of course :P )

Damn that got long-winded!

[Tourach]

My favourite deck is Bg LoamPox because of all the synergies it packs. It has a comboey feeling to it at times and has both recursion and big guys. I also really like (in no paticular order) TES, Spanish Inquisition, Rock decks (without Stoneforge mostly) and Team America.

Decks I wouldn`t want to play myself but have sympathy for include Solidarity, Enchantress and Goblins.

I neither like to play with nor against Show and Tell decks. They tend to be dumb.

[Purgatory]

Robin (RUG advantage).


What deck are we talking about here?

[T-101]

Favorites:
BUG control - I feel like this deck has reasonable to good percentages against anything in the field. With the board, you can shore up whatever weaknesses you like. Many times I've pulled wins out of what appear to be unwinable games.
The Rock (GWB) - This deck just feels like old school Magic. Awesome creatures, sick removal spells, targeted discard, Deed.

Least favorites:
RUG Delver - Just feels like the entry level, I wanna play Legacy, so I'll build this! Stifle is annoying, Mongoose is hard to deal with, and the deck is just so common...
Show and Tell decks - I hate Emrakul...

[Rekk]

Ant, theirs nothing like a good storm count of 10+ after a pif

[boneclub24]

Least favorites:
RUG Delver - Just feels like the entry level, I wanna play Legacy, so I'll build this! Stifle is annoying, Mongoose is hard to deal with, and the deck is just so common...

I can understand that, but the deck is just so fun to play, too.

[T-101]

I can understand that, but the deck is just so fun to play, too.

I can't argue with that. But this is an opinion poll, and I'm allowed to have a least favorite. (Note that BUG Control/Creeping Tarpit Beatdown is one of my favs, but I fully understand how boring, unfun, slow, and nightmarish it is for my opponent.)

[FieryBalrog]

favorites:
Maverick
UW Miracles
for pure indulgence:
Geddon Stax
Dragon Stompy

I like interesting decisions but also splashy, fun effects. I love playing Miracles for this reason, while I really didn't care for previous versions of CB-Top decks.

least favorites:
RUG Delver - the quintessential hyper efficient, boring deck to me. It's like the San Antonio Spurs of Legacy.
Show & Tell - because both Omniscience and Emrakul are fucking stupid cards and the worst examples of modern Magic design

[jtos84]

I don't actively play all of my favorite legacy decks but they are:

Enchantress
Walking Dead
EvaGreen

[feline]

High Tide because I'm crazy!

[Hapless Researcher]

I love decks that are either mono Brown or insane Utility.

MUD (I want to make this work so bad it's not even funny), Junk (I hate SFM), and Jund (It's a thing! I swear!).

I love playing grindy decks.

[xfxf]

High Tide because I'm crazy!

You are not alone. This deck has that draw-go, tight play, do nothing but plan 3-4 steps in your head, have answers to everything feel which makes you feel warm and fuzzy. You draw a card, think through possible play lines, feel confident about how the game will play out, maybe play a cantrip, feel in control and pass... Until you are ready to create inevitability. What's not to love :)?